Charlottetown sailor Geoff Ralling sets out July 2 on his New Vinland Voyage.

He will depart from Peake’s Wharf aboard his 32-foot sail boat Be Faithful 2 on the way north across the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the northern tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula.

There he will visit the L’Anse aux Meadows historic site, location of the over-wintering base established more than 1,000 years ago by Leifur Eriksson (Leif the Lucky) and his fellow Norse adventurers from Greenland and Iceland.

And from L’Anse aux Meadows he’ll sail south again, reimagining the explorations by the Vikings of the area that they so famously called Vinland. He’ll return to Prince Edward Island in mid-August.

In the opinion of Parks Canada archaeologist Dr. Birgitta Wallace, who led the original Parks Canada excavation at L’Anse aux Meadows, “the Vinland of the sagas encompasses all the coasts around the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and L’Anse aux Meadows was the base from which it was explored, the gateway into Vinland.” (p. 213, “The Viking Settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows,” in Vikings: The North Atlantic Saga, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000)